Paul Souders

Current

• Senior Designer at Mercy Corps
• Designer at Axoplasm (Sole Proprietorship)

Past

• Senior Web Architect at Ports 1961
• Senior Usability Designer at ID Branding
• Art Director at Curiosity Group

• Designer/Developer at NineDots
• Designer/Developer at CyberSight
• Designer at Headbone Interactive
• Staff Archaeologist at Statistical Research, Inc.
• Field Director/Staff Archaeologist at Ethnoscience
• Museum Collections Assistant/Graduate Teaching Fellow at Oregon State Museum of Anthropology (OSMA)

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Education

• University of Oregon
• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Recommended

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Connections

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Industry

Internet

Websites

• Portfolio
• Mercy Corps
• My Blog

Paul Souders’s Summary

I am a web designer with a techy science background. My designs evince a problem-solving orientation; I see solutions as systemic and architectural. I draw a bright line between design-as-decoration and design-as-planning. I do the second kind more than the first kind.

Paul Souders’s Specialties:

• Graphic design and art direction
• Front-end web design and development
• Orthogonal application architecture
• Usability and interface design
• Information architecture
• Web technologies: (X)HTML, CSS, JavaScript, MySQL, PHP, Drupal, Python

Paul Souders’s Experience

• Senior Designer

  Mercy Corps

  (Non-Profit; Non-Profit Organization Management industry)

  August 2007 — Present (2 years 4 months)

  All the jobs I've ever had were secretly preparation for THIS job.

• Designer

  Axoplasm (Sole Proprietorship)

  (Sole Proprietorship; Myself Only; Internet industry)

  January 1999 — Present (10 years 11 months)

  What I do is who I am; see my “Summary,” above. Lots of companies paid me to draw and write and code and think. Some of those companies include PolyServe, Tektronix, Portland General Electric, and TechTracker.

• Senior Web Architect

  Ports 1961

  (Apparel & Fashion industry)

  February 2007 — June 2007 (5 months)

  I oversaw web efforts for an international clothing company headquartered in China. Ports's brands include Ports 1961, Printemps China Department Stores, and Ports International (recently revealed to be the third most recognized brand in China). A team of Chinese web designers and developers worked under my direct supervision.

• Senior Usability Designer

  ID Branding

  (Internet industry)

  August 2005 — July 2006 (1 year )

  I designed and documented the user experience of the Intel Brand Center, a global extranet for distributing and managing on-brand creative.

• Art Director

  Curiosity Group

  (Partnership; 11-50 employees; Internet industry)

  July 2002 — March 2005 (2 years 9 months)

  I led a team of designers through the treacherous shoals of web, email, print, and interactive marketing. Not to mention pitching and wooing clients, guiding artistic direction, and keeping a firm hand on the tiller of User Experience. Clients included Hewlett-Packard, Paramount Television, and MacForce.

• Designer/Developer

  NineDots

  (Internet industry)

  January 2000 — April 2001 (1 year 4 months)

  (See identical entry for "CyberSight", below)

• Designer/Developer

  CyberSight

  (Internet industry)

  January 2000 — April 2001 (1 year 4 months)

  I designed (in the “drew pretty pictures” sense) and developed (in the “hand-tooled front-end code and Flash” sense) websites for NW Natural, Dole Foods, Quaker Oats, and Cap’n Crunch. Why are “designing” and “developing” always two separate jobs at creative agencies? That’s why my job title had a slash in it.

• Designer

  Headbone Interactive

  (Internet industry)

  August 1999 — January 2000 (6 months)

  They paid me to draw monkeys. Not JUST monkeys, mind you, and of course the drawing was just a tiny part of my job (which also included a fair bit of front-end coding and Flash and CGI and whatnot) but yes, I did draw monkeys and THEY PAID ME.

• Staff Archaeologist

  Statistical Research, Inc.

  (Environmental Services industry)

  June 1998 — May 1999 (1 year )

• Field Director/Staff Archaeologist

  Ethnoscience

  (Environmental Services industry)

  August 1997 — December 1997 (5 months)

• Museum Collections Assistant/Graduate Teaching Fellow

  Oregon State Museum of Anthropology (OSMA)

  (Museums and Institutions industry)

  October 1995 — August 1997 (1 year 11 months)

Paul Souders’s Education

• University of Oregon

  MS , Anthropology , 1995 — 1997

• University of Nebraska-Lincoln

  BA , Anthropology , 1989 — 1993

Additional Information

Paul Souders’s Websites:

• Portfolio
• Mercy Corps
• My Blog

Paul Souders’s Groups:

•    O'Reilly Open Source Convention OSCON

Paul Souders’s Contact Settings

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